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Cheese Potatoes in Jacket

Cheese Potatoes in Jacket are baked potatoes stuffed with butter, milk, egg whites, and cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cheese Potatoes in Jacket

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Bake the potatoes

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Rub the potatoes with melted butter.

  3. Bake until thoroughly done.

Make the filling

  1. Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise.

  2. Scoop out the insides and mash until smooth.

  3. Beat in the butter, milk, salt, and pepper until fluffy.

  4. Fold in the egg whites.

  5. Refill the potato shells.

Top and bake

  1. Top each with a thin slice of American cheese.

  2. Return to the oven.

  3. Bake for about 10 minutes until browned.

  4. Serve immediately.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the starchy flesh that is mashed into a light, fluffy filling.
Egg whites
Add structure and lift to the mashed potato filling as they set in the oven.
Milk or cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the mashed potato soft and smooth.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the filling and helps the potato skin brown.
American cheese
Melts over the filling and browns on top for a savory finish.

The step that matters

Beat in the butter, milk, salt, and pepper until fluffy. Mashed potato turns gluey if it is overworked, and cold or excess liquid makes it dense. Beating only until fluffy, with warm, well-mashed potato, keeps the filling light before the egg whites are folded in.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, butter, milk, egg, cheese):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits less well
  4. Tomatofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, butter, milk, egg, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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